Three men who had their faces covered with helmets barged into a film production company’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and took away ₹7.3 lakh brandishing a knife and threatening to kill.Only one staff member and a guest ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar victim on Wednesday withdrew their application from the Supreme Court for a fresh probe into the rape and murder of their daughter, which they had sought citing that “more than one person” was ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphCharles T. Metcalfe, who as acting Governor-Gen- eral had introduced major reforms in India that included an Act on the freedom of press, was born on this day in Calcutta. His father had been a director of the British ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphPeople should maintain hand hygiene, and should not eat stale food or drink water that could be contaminated, although no unexpected spike in the number of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) cases has been noticed in the state so far, officials ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe owner of the popular biryani chain D Bapi was arrested in Madhyamgram for allegedly threatening a person with arms and assaulting him during talks about a rented property. Anirban Das was arrested on Tuesday under the Arms Act ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe state forest department and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are considering a proposal that a building’s completion certificate be issued only if the owner plants a certain number of saplings, as promised before getting the building permit, officials ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphFor around a thousand years in the ancient period, India’s influence extended far beyond its borders.One of the leading historians in the world, who also happens to be a best-selling author, turned the pages back on the lawns of ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe teacher-in-charge of a government-aided school in North Dinajpur who is suspected to have masterminded the racket that duped over 2,000 students by transferring a government grant for buying tablets or smartphones to others’ accounts was arrested on Wednesday.Police ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphShoes, shawls, mufflers and many other personal items lay strewn on the road in the stampede zone of Mahakumbh when two lawyers from Calcutta reached there around noon on Wednesday.Hours before that, when they were taking a dip at ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe owner of a popular biryani joint in Barrackpore near Kolkata who is also a local Trinamul leader was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly threatening and assaulting a godown owner.The owner, Anirban Das, is an elected gram panchayat member ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphOld manuscripts, black-and-white photographs, lithographs, woodcuts, needlework, porcelain figurines, matchbox labels and furniture — all from the early 19th to 20th century — give us an essence of what Calcutta used to be.Calcutta Memorabilia, an exhibition presented by Intach, ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe state health department has given its nod to the CBI to “prosecute” former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh in a financial irregularity case for which he has been arrested.The central agency has also got ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, on Tuesday said the seizure of arms from the heart of the city does not indicate criminals are getting easy shelter in Bengal.Verma was speaking on the arrest of five men from ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, M.K. Gandhi wrote a letter to C.F. Andrews, a missionary who participated in India’s freedom movement.In the letter, Gandhi addresses Andrews as “My dearest Charlie” and speaks about untouchability. It reads:“…I look at the problem as ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the young doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital do not want the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, their lawyer submitted before Calcutta High Court on Monday. The Bengal government and the ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe small and dwindling Chinese population in the city is all set to celebrate the New Year on Wednesday.Houses and streets in Tangra and Tiretta Bazaar, two neighbourhoods in the city with a sizeable Chinese population, were decorated with ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphSomething seems amiss in a house without books, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said inaugurating the 48th edition of the International Kolkata Book Fair at the Boi Mela Prangan in Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee on Tuesday.“Je baritey boi thaakey na, kirokom ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphFreedom of press was always elusive.On this day, 245 years ago, the first Indian newspaper was born when James Augustus Hicky printed Hicky’s Bengal Gazette. Its brief, brilliant, outrageous and checkered career illustrates, quite spectacularly, what can happen when ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair at the Boimela Prangan in Central Park in Salt Lake on Tuesday afternoon.Germany is the focal theme country for this year’s fair, which will continue till February ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphHP Ghosh Hospital marked an important milestone today with the launch of Bhalo Thakar Prescription, a book aimed at making healthcare more accessible and understandable. The event was attended by prominent figures, including Dr Narayan Banerjee, who underscored the ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphJan 28 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday inaugurated the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair and expressed hope that one day it would emerge as the “best of the best” in the world.Despite the surge in ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Police team arrested a gang of five men from Uttar Pradesh led by a BTech degree holder in a raid near Surendranath College in central Kolkata’s Sealdah area late on Monday, but the cops are yet to ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the British forces captured the Danish colony of Serampore for the second time.In 1801, the British and the Danes extended their conflict in Europe to the Indian territories they controlled. In May that year, the British ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday set February 10 for further hearing a batch of petitions related to Calcutta High Court’s April 2024 judgment quashing the recruitment of 23,123 teaching and non-teaching staff in Bengal because of alleged illegalities following ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphGandhigiri makes more sense than Gandhivaad or Gandhism because it means trying to implement Gandhi’s ideas in the altered circumstances of our lives, a scholar who has extensively studied the Mahatma told a Calcutta audience. “Gandhism means nothing. Gandhigiri ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphA structural engineer hired by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to assess the two tilted buildings on Tangra’s Christopher Road has suggested that the one under construction be pulled down first to determine if the other, where families have ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who was arrested for allegedly causing a road accident that killed a rickshaw-puller on BT Road on Saturday evening was granted bail on Sunday.His lawyer told the Sealdah court ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphChunks from the second floor of Esplanade Mansions, a Grade I heritage building opposite the southeast gate of Raj Bhavan, crashed on the footpath below on Sunday and at least one pedestrian was injured.The "poorly maintained" building has many ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe chill will be back but only for a couple of days, after which the mercury will rise again, the Alipore Met Office said on Sunday.The minimum temperature went up in the last few days, resulting in warm nights ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphTwo coaches of the Santragachhi-Tirupati Superfast Express were derailed after a collision with a parcel van near Shalimar station on Sunday morning. There was no casualty because the train, which was headed towards Shalimar from Santragachhi, did not have ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThree air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta reported “poor” air on the Republic Day morning and three others reported “moderate” air.In the twin city Howrah, one station recorded “very poor” air quality, two recorded “poor” air quality and two ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the Bank of Calcutta and the two other Presidency banks, Bank of Bombay and Bank of Madras, were merged to form the Imperial Bank of India, an all-India bank. The new bank performed like a regular ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Medical Council has written to the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital asking whether Kinjal Nanda, a postgraduate trainee and one of the popular faces of the junior doctors’ protests, took permission from the ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe president of the Bengal Christian Council — a religious body — urged its affiliated schools, colleges, and organisations to appeal to the heritage commission to remove their buildings from the heritage list during a rally held earlier this ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphA new edition of Netaji’s Collected Works Volume 9, titled Congress President, which includes his speeches and writings from January 1938 to April 1939, was ceremonially released at Netaji Bhavan on the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 128th ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphAnother spell of chill is on its way to the city, the Met office said on Saturday.The conditions had been unusually warm for the past few days but the comeback of northerly and northwesterly winds will bring back the ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe mauled street furniture of Dalhousie Square, stolen cast iron fencings and streetlights that were installed to create a look of the place as it was in the late 18th century when the square was the nerve centre of ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe republic turns 75 on Sunday. The nation will rejoice.Some will also worry about changes that they fear do not bode well for the nation’s future.Cultural differences have found their way into tiffin boxes and classroom conversations that are ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphBritish army officer in India Richard James Holwell Birch was born on this day. He was a descendant of John Zephaniah Holwell, who wrote the famous account of the torture of British prisoners by Bengal Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula’s soldiers. His ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphAmid the raging debate over a Kolkata court sentencing R G Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death, legal luminaries are unequivocal in their stand against awarding capital punishment to anyone.The Sealdah sessions court had ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphJohn Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day.Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company. He was employed in Dacca (Dhaka), from where he was expelled.He joined Robert Clive in recapturing Calcutta, after ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe CID on Friday questioned two senior doctors at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital who are among the dozen suspended for alleged negligence resulting in the death of a young woman and serious complications suffered by four others after ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphMetro connectivity to the airport got a boost on Friday with the “first full-fledged trial run” on the Noapara-Jai Hind Bimanbandar section of the Yellow Line.The Yellow Line refers to the Noapara-Barasat section which is under construction. The first ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphA businessman from Manipur was allegedly cheated out of ₹35 lakh by a group of tricksters who posed as customs officers, police said.Three persons, including the alleged kingpin, have been arrested and a part of the stolen amount has ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe deep-rooted fear of death is ingrained in human nature, without which we would be at an evolutionary disadvantage, Nobel laureate Venky Ramakrishnan told a Calcutta audience earlier this week.He was in conversation with physicist Somak Raychaudhury on Wednesday, ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphSanjay Roy, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer convicted for the horrific rape and murder of a trainee doctor while on duty, at her workplace, Calcutta's state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment till ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata will operate additional trains on the Sealdah to Salt Lake Sector V route of Green Line from January 28 to February 9 for the convenience of people visiting the Kolkata Book Fair, an official statement said ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphCalcutta High Court dismissed a petition filed by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) against the Publishers and Booksellers Guild for not allowing it to set up a stall at the Calcutta Book Fair this year.The order passed by Justice ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe state higher education department has told Jadavpur University that the students’ union election has to wait till an ongoing process to amend rules governing campus polls is complete.An official in the department said they have proposed that 55 ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphFlights to and from Calcutta were disrupted for the second consecutive day on Friday because of fog.More than 25 flights were delayed and seven inbound flights were diverted, said an official at the airport. A few flights were also ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe CBI on Friday filed a petition before Calcutta High Court seeking capital punishment for Sanjay Roy, who has been awarded life imprisonment by the Sealdah court for the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at RG Kar ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe imposing Hongkong House at BBD Bag, a telling image of a Calcutta that was, celebrated its 100 years on Friday.HSBC India, which has its oldest branch in the four-storey building, has unveiled a “history wall” featuring images with ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphIn a heartfelt effort to preserve the diminishing art forms of West Bengal, Senco Gold & Diamonds, one of India’s leading jewellery retailers, unveiled the third chapter of its annual CSR initiative, ‘Attitude of Gratitude’, at Gallery Gold on ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphFour couples decked up in wedding gear and exchanged garlands once again in the autumn of their lives. There was neither priest nor any paraphernalia. And instead of doing the seven rounds of the open fire as in a ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe action was not just on the stage.Two friends, Bhumika Debnath and Sakshi Debnath, set to write their board exams in three weeks, convinced their parents to allow them a three-day break, and spontaneously danced off-stage while waiting for ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphIs that a bear you’re walking with?” someone asked Monorama Ghosal on the street the other day, while staring at Balu, her black Chow Chow. Monorama has been asked this so many times that she’s tired of correcting people. ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphCommuters had to walk several kilometres from Bally to board a bus on Thursday when work on the Dakshineswar-Bally Ghat flank of the Bally bridge (Vivekananda Setu) began and buses were routed through Nivedita Setu.A section of daily commuters ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphThe body of a woman, who police suspect was stabbed to death, was found on the ground floor of a two-storey house at Diamond Park in Joka on Thursday.The woman had taken the ground floor on rent and moved ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphJust a day after the furore over the two tilted buildings in Tangra, two more buildings were found to be leaning dangerously towards adjacent buildings on Thursday.One of the buildings is located at Jagatpur in Baguiati and the other ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphMusic and art, which carried the spirit of fight in pre-independent India, were significantly influenced by culture from the East and West and a cosmopolitan spirit constituted the bedrock of nationalism, historian Sugata Bose said on Thursday while delivering ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphThe Sydney Morning Herald published a report titled “Calcutta Two Thousand Years Hence” that spoke about climate change, predicting a cooling of the northern hemisphere.“‘The Progressive Cooling of the Northern Hemisphere and of Northern India’ is a title that ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius is on its way up, so much that many Calcuttans had to switch on the fan on Thursday.For most of the day, wearing an added layer of clothing was almost impossible.The Met office, though, warned against packing ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphFlight operations at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport were disrupted on Thursday due to dense fog, affecting the movement of at least 72 flights, officials said.Kolkata Airport director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said 39 departures and 21 ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphRefuting perceptions of roadblocks to bring back the mortal remains held in an urn in a Buddhist temple in Renkoji in Japan, widely believed to be that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, a section of descendants of the national ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphThree bike-borne men allegedly fired at a youth near Barrackpore’s Chiria More, adjacent to the office of the Barrackpore police commissioner, on Wednesday, police said.Mohammed Imdad, 30, was allegedly shot at near an abandoned godown in Barrackpore’s Abdali Bazar, ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday ordered a six-week stay on an ongoing investigation against RG Kar Medical College and Hospital postgraduate trainee Asfakulla Naiya, accused of misrepresenting his degree.Naiya moved the high court on Monday challenging a Bidhannagar Police ...
24 January 2025 TelegraphActress Swastika Mukherjee took to Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday to share an incident where a delivery executive allegedly stole two tickets for the India vs England T20I match at Eden Gardens.Mukherjee shared a post written by her manager, ...
23 January 2025 TelegraphA multistorey building tilted in Kolkata’s Tangra locality on Wednesday morning, sparking panic among residents of the area, the incident coming on the heels of a similar incident last week.. The building at Tangra’s Christopher Road in east Kolkata ...
23 January 2025 TelegraphThe country’s first and only ‘affordable food outlet’ at an airport seems to have struck a chord with passengers in Kolkata, as it clocked a daily footfall of around 900 in the first month. ...
23 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the newspaper Bengal Hurkaru, published from Calcutta, printed an advertisement announcing a consignment of muslins arrived in the city from Dhaka.It goes:“DACCA MUSLINS. JOSEPH TAYLOR HAS RECEIVED FOR SALE, ON COMMISSION, A QUANTITY OF DACCA PIECE ...
23 January 2025 TelegraphWhen news of the life sentence trickled out of the court at 2.50pm, there were cries from the gathered crowd that a rapist had no place in society.The crowd started gathering outside the court as early as 9am to ...
22 January 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a godown of rubber items and a bakery on the top floor of a two-storey building on Tiljala Road, adjoining Park Circus station, on Monday afternoon, police said.The blaze prompted Eastern Railway to disconnect ...
22 January 2025 TelegraphA premier institute for seafarers will soon have a centre focused on maritime innovation and research.A former student of the institute is financing the setting up of the unit to repay his debt to his alma mater.The foundation stone ...
22 January 2025 TelegraphJunior doctor Asfakulla Naiya, who has been accused of falsely claiming to be an ENT surgeon, moved Calcutta High Court on Monday challenging a summons by Bidhannagar police in connection with their investigation. Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of Calcutta High ...
22 January 2025 TelegraphSanjay Roy, who was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, will have to work at the jail to earn a living.Roy, who has studied up to Class XII, will be engaged as an ...
22 January 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started scraping off the top layer before re-laying it on relatively narrow roads like BB Chatterjee Road in Kasba and Sarat Ghosh Garden Road in Dhakuria after similar work on arterial roads like ...
22 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day the ship Phoenix, records show, reached Kedgeree (Khejuri in East Midnapore) on an East India Company chartered voyage.It had sailed from England, bound for Madras (Chennai) and Bengal.In 1822, it sailed from Portsmouth in England carrying ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThe Publishers and Booksellers Guild is a private organisation entitled to decide the allocation of stalls at the Kolkata Book Fair, a lawyer for the guild told Calcutta High Court on Monday.Justice Amrita Sinha was hearing a petition filed ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThe Dakshineswar-Ballyghat flank of Vivekananda Setu, or Bally bridge, will remain closed for 100 hours (around four days) from midnight on January 23 until 4am on January 27 for the dismantling of some girders, the state government said in ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphIf the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at a hospital cannot qualify as “a rarest of rare crime”, what else can, junior doctors asked on Monday, vowing to continue with their protests and the legal fight till ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphHe turned left to his lawyer and right to the judge. That movement continued for 25 minutes as the lawyer argued why he should not be hanged and the judge peppered her with questions.At the Sealdah court, Sanjay Roy ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphArguments and counter-arguments at the Sealdah court that preceded the sentencing of Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case on Monday.Rarest of rare, say CBI lawyersIn their final submission, the CBI lawyers called the rape and ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police civic volunteer convicted of raping and killing a junior doctor on duty at the RG Kar hospital in August last year was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment till death by a Calcutta court on Monday. Sanjay ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphOnce Chhot, a sleek, V-shaped boat, cut through the waters of the Rupnarayan river and would go bravely forward to meet the choppy waters of the sea. Then one day the Damodar Valley Project happened and dams were built ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphA city hospital has installed an advanced system of interventional therapy that doctors said offers superior precision, better access and reduced radiation exposure.Interventional therapy is a minimally invasive treatment that delivers a therapeutic agent directly to the site of ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThey lack resources. They lack the comforts of life. But they do not lack dreams.A school where most children come from downtrodden families celebrated its annual day concert at Mahajati Sadan on Sunday. On its sidelines, several students, some ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphFinally, we have a verdict in the case of the rape and murder of the RG Kar doctor. Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer of Kolkata Police who the city force had arrested on August 10, a day after the ...
20 January 2025 TelegraphThe verdict in the August 9 rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, an atrocity that had churned Bengal society and politics and grabbed national spotlight, was delivered on Saturday with the ...
20 January 2025 TelegraphThe father of the slain medic said on Saturday they were happy that the Sealdah court had flagged the lapses of police and those at the helm at RG Kar hospital when the heinous crime took place on August ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphSaturday’s verdict in the RG Kar case did not mean closure, junior doctors said outside the Sealdah court on Saturday. They would still want to know about the “larger conspiracy” and “destruction of evidence” that the CBI had earlier ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThis was the second and final day of the “Grand Match of Cricket” held in the city between Old Etonians and the Rest of Calcutta.The Old Etonians defeated the Calcuttans convincingly, by an innings and 80 runs. The Old ...
19 January 2025 Telegraph‘Do not cross the line’, said a yellow tape slung across the door to the seminar hall in the Emergency building where the young doctor was found raped and killed on August 9 last year.At 2.30pm on Saturday, a ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA packed Sealdah courtroom presented scenes rare in the city’s recent criminal records. Metro chronicles what we saw and heard.Fans, pleaseThe verdict was due at 2.30pm. The court of the additional district and sessions judge was packed by noon.The ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe trial concluded in less than two months and in that time, 50 witnesses deposed against the lone accused in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, Sanjay Roy.The CBI said it was confident about Saturday’s outcome. Their confidence, more than ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA Calcutta High Court judge on Friday asked the Publishers and Booksellers Guild to submit an affidavit by Monday stating whether it was ready to allot a stall to the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) in the Calcutta Book Fair ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphPolice have submitted a “split” chargesheet before the Alipore court against six people accused in the attempted shooting on Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh.They have been charged under several sections of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, including attempt to ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphWater supply in large swathes of south Calcutta that get their daily quota from the Garden Reach treatment plant will be suspended after 9am on Saturday for repairs.Normal supply will resume at 6am on Sunday.Kalighat, Kasba, Tollygunge, Chetla, Golf ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on the terrace of a six-storeyed building on Hungerford Street on Friday afternoon, sparking panic among residents who rushed out of their apartments.Police had to divert traffic to facilitate fire fighting in a pocket of ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphGovernment medical colleges have seen several changes since the RG Kar rape and murder on August 9 but promises of many more are yet to be fulfilled. Hospitals are still refusing patients and a central referral system, which junior ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA Malaysian melting pot, which is a popular holiday destination, is now looking to welcome more Indians.Penang, located around 300km north of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, is wooing Indians with direct air connectivity and visa exemption, besides ...
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